Device for connecting boots or shoes



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DEVICE FOR CONNECTING BOOTS 0R SHOES.

N0.- 255,480. Patented Mar. 28,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM K. WEBB, OF NOBTH BRIDGETON, MAINE.

DEV-ICE FOR CONNECTiNG BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,480, dated March 28, 1882,

Application filed January 16, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM K. W'EBB, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Bridgeton, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in a Device for Connecting together Boots or Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view ofa pair of shoes, showingthem connected together by my improved fastening device; and Fig. 2 is a detail view of the fastening device.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful devices for connectingtogether the rights and lefts of boots and shoes. Previous to my invention it was usually the custom to connect the boots or shoes together, after being finished, by a string or cord of suitable length, knotted at its ends to prevent it drawing through the holes in the heels. This method was a very tedious one, taking considerable time, and frequently the knots would pull through the holes and the rights and lefts become separated from each other;

and, further, when trying on the boots or shoes it was found necessary in some cases to cut the string in order to separate them.

The object of the invention is to provide a string whereby the boots or shoes can'be connected together much quicker than heretofore and detached without the necessity of destroying or cutting the string, as will be hereinafter described, and subsequently pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, A B represent respectively the right and left ofa pair of shoes connected together by a cord or string, 0, of any suitable material and of the required length. To the ends of the string 0 are attached bars a, preferably of sheet metal stamped out (No model.)

and bent into shape and around the ends of the string, so that the bars will be crosswise or at right angles to the length of the string when in the boot or shoe, as shown in Fig. 1. The bars a may be slightly pointed or rounded at one end, so as to facilitate their entering the holes in the heel. The bars a, as will be noticed, are tubular a portion of their length for the attachment of the ends of the cord or string, and semi-tubular the remainder oftheir length to form seats I) for the string to rest in when the bars are brought on a line therewith, so that the bars can be passed through the holes' their entire length without any inconvenience.

In fasteningor connecting the shoes together the bar a is turned down on a line with the string 0, so that the latter will rest in the seat- '1) .and be out of the way. The pointed or rounded end of the bar is theninserted through the hole in the heel of the shoe from the outside and the opposite bar connected in like manner to the other shoe, thereby securely connecting the rights and lofts of each pair together without danger of their becoming separated, as would be the case were the ends of the string knotted.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' A device for connecting a pair of shoes, consisting of a cord or string provided at each end with a bar, a, which is tubular a portion of its length and semi-tubular the remainder, and having the cord or string secured to said bars, and adapted to beused substantially as set forth. I

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM K. WEBB.

Witnesses:

JACKSON CLARK, FRANK SEAVEY. 

